Friday, December 17, 2010

Major Milestone

Last night - at 3 months and 10 days old - the twain slept through the night!!!

They went down at 9:30 after their mega-feeding and then Sir Miles woke up at 4, but was mollified in 3 minutes when TD gave him a binky and then they slept until 6am! After another mega-feeding, they slept until 8:45!

Our little guy has been able to get to sleep on his own two nights in a row. (That is, we put him in his crib, and he actually falls asleep there instead of crying to be held.) Last night he slept from 11 pm to 5 am. It felt like a huge luxury.

"It was lying on a butcher's block, not crying, although there was snow, but warm and chuckling under a comforter of stray cats. They were all purring together, and the sound was heavy with knowledge. I stood by the strange cradle for a long time, pondering while the snow fell and the cats purred prophecy."